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By Jane Keltner of Valle
The bean. The bone. The Tear Print. Elsa Peretti’s iconic creations for Tiffany
Elsa Peretti for Tiffany
Peretti’s comic strip of fists and the bone chandelier.
I bet Italian who studied interior design in Rome and worked for an architect in Milan before fleeing to New York, Peretti has been an exercise in contrasts. His career began in style. In 1969, a sterling silver vase that formed after a discovery at a flea market and irreverently put on a leather cord gave the impression to a model during the fashion show of fashion designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo. Five years later, Peretti landed at Tiffany’s
Her partnership with Tiffany remains one of the greatest hits in the brand’s history (this year new colors of her Bone bracelet were brought). And the pieces of file, especially out-of-production terracotta works, are still unearthed coveted for the creators of the most demanding flavors. Young, whose clients come with Margot Robbie and Selena Gomez, has proudly collected a dozen Bone chandeliers, as well as Thumbprint bowls and glasses. “It’s high-end glamour combined with anything earthy,” he says. “Terracotta is necessarily mud, however, the scale and the way it is carved are so refined. “The DEcorator AD100 Miles Redd, meanwhile, provided a customer’s space with Peretti’s Padova sterling silver cutlery. “There is an edited and biological simplicity in his creations,” he says. “They’re just time control. “tiffany. com
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